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There several aviation sports events that have and will take place in exhibition of aircrafts of different types to the aircraft operators from all over the world. Some  aircraft manufacturers will be celebrating their anniversaries since inception and others will be bring their new aircrafts into the market for the operators to be able to view and decide on inventing them into their fleet.

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Air Venture 2010- A Year of Celebration.

The Douglas DC-3 and the Boeing B-17 celebrated and marked, both 75 years young, at Air Venture, in Oshkosh, Wisconsis this year. It also marked the celebration and honoring of all veterans and those who serve now, with war bird fly-bys held every day.

The aircraft got into the field before any of those celebrations could get underway.

Oshkosh was under a storm that at one point delivered seven inches of rain in a 12-hour period for almost 72 hours preceding the show. Someone called it “Sploshkosh”.Even Milwaukee International Airport,150 miles south of Oshkosh, was closed because of runway flooding, and that was a “first”!

At Wittman Field, Oshkosh, venue for AirVenture, most of the 10000 incoming aircraft were diverted to nearby airports when the taxiways became clogged with aircraft. Once the rain stopped, officials had to wait until the ground dried out before they could recover (and park) any aircraft.

As EAA made arrangements to move campers and motor homes to nearby malls as the rain and mud caused four empty camp-grounds. By noon of opening day,(July 26) ,warm temperatures and low humidity had things almost back to “normal”, but residual issues lingered until late in the week. More than 10000 aircraft found spots to park on the grounds. A total of 2380 show planes, included 1106 homebuilt aircraft, 635 vintage airplanes, 374 warbirds, 115 ultralights, 120 seaplanes and 30 rotorcraft were there.

DAKOTAS RULE

A cavalcade of 21 DC-3/Dakotas roared over Air Venture Monday afternoon as part of a mx*&$ arrival.By mid-week, the event would become the largest gathering of DC-3s since World War 11 with 36 aircraft scattered around the airport.

Since the plans were to park the DC-3s Dakotas together but the soggy ground washed out the plans. There is no doubt this was the last time that this many Dakotas will meet.

The original goal was 25 aircraft making an hour-long flight from the staging area at Rock Falls 111,to Wittman Regional Airport for a formation fly-by at 10000 feet to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first flight of the iconic aircraft. Organizers were deluged with requests to take part in the flight. The current record is 28 set in South Africa in 1985.

There are only two airworthy examples of the DC-2 remaining. One is in The Netherlands, and the other, in the TWA livery of The Lindbergh Line, arrived at AirVenture.It was given a coveted place at  Aero shell square, and the centre of attention.

There was at least one forum on the Dakota each day with veteran C-47 pilots, Spooky and EC-47 drivers, private owners, and airline pilots all sharing funny, and often times hair-raising, stories of how the beloved Gooney Bird saved their bacon.

On Tuesday evening saw an exclusive DC-3 community (about 600) cookout hosted by Basler Turbo Conversions of Oshkosh.Basler refurbishes DC-3s from its base at Witt man Regional Airport which is technically where Air Venture takes place.

On the Thursday evening, there was a special DC-3/C-47 reunion at the Theatre in the Woods. Special guest, Jim Douglas, the last surviving son of DC-3 designer Donald W Douglas, shared a perspective on growing up with his famous father. Almost 4000 people attended the event which featured a three-part program me: the early history through the Super DC-3: World War 11  and Vietnam and  what the old girl is doing today, which included the missions of the turbine-powered Basler BT-67 and the appearance of the stars of hit Canadian reality TV series “Ice Pilots”.

The Ice pilots, of Buffalo Airways, still operate the last scheduled daily Dakota px*&$enger service in the world. They fly in the frozen country of the Yukon Territory, in Northwest Canada.

SHARING THE LIMELIGHT

The DC-3 shared the limelight with the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress as Wednesday, July 28, marked the 75th anniversary of the first flight of the B-17. Between Boeing, Lockheed, and Douglas, more than 12000 were built, and 75 years later, four of the believed nine airworthy Flying Fortresses in North America, flew Air Venture.

According to Boeing historians, the B-17 went from its design as the model 299 prototype of flight testing in less than 12 months. By the time the war was over, the design was up to the “G” model, which carried twelve .50 calibre machine guns. In all, there were 8680 B-17G models built by Boeing, Vega, and Douglas to make this the largest production variation. The four Fortresses included the EAAs Aluminum Overcast, the Thunderbird, from the Lonestar Flight Museum, in Galveston, Texas, Texas Raiders belonging to the Commemorative Air Force (CAF), and Yankee Lady.

EAAs own B-17G Aluminum Overcast operated out of Appleton (about 60 miles away) this week to provide rides. Seen and heard overhead throughout the week, the EAAs flagship Fortress survived a major rebuilding .Earlier this year, its lower ball turret, was refurbished to operating condition. It did land on the field later in the week to help celebrates its 75th birthday.

Thunderbird, which, like the Texas Raiders, hails from the Gulf Coast, has financial challenges during these economic times.”We used to do 20 shows year”, said pilot Doug peoples.”Now, five or six raod trips, and some local hops make up a season for the B-17, beleaguered withy a scarcity of sponsors to foot the bill.

Texas Raiders has spent the past 47 years in the care of the CAF, but was out of action for seven years after inspections revealed extensive corrosion resulting from exposure to the saltwater of the Gulf Coast. The rehabilitation cost almost 0000.

Yankee Lady B-17G, N3193G, was delivered to the US Army Air Corps as 44-85829, then transferred to the US Coast Guard as PB-1G, BuNO 77255 in September 1946.Since then, it has worked in various configurations. It was a tanker in 1966, and in January 1969, Yankee Lady appeared in the movie Tora Tora Tora.Yankee Air Museum at Yspilanti, Michigan.

NEW COMPANY

News from around the circuit at Oshkosh included the fact that Alan Klapmeier,co-founder and former CEO of cirrus, is back creating a new airplane.

Klapmeier and a group of investors are merging with Farnborough Aircraft to create the 37-foot kenstral JP 10, a carbon fibre, 6-8 px*&$enger turboprop, at a former naval base in Brunswick, Maine.

So far, Klapmeier says he has no specs for weight, performance, development schedule, or price tag. Of course he does, but he will not be revealing them so early in the game. What he does have is a great deal of confidence in the data collected by Farnborough Aircraft during testing of what may be the prototype of the final aircraft.

The leading edge of the wing will be straighter, the tip slightly curved back and the engine power ratcheted down slightly, and at the request of the FAA this is according to kenstral spokesman in regard to plans to modify its Proof of Concept aircraft. Alan Klapmeier said “we’re looking forward to changing the future of general aviation”, and there will be more models beyond the Kestrel.

The company will hire about 300 people initially and it has put a budget of $ 100-million into the development of the aircraft.

INTRODUCING THE TRANSITION

Terrafugia,Inc., developer of the Transition Roadable Aircraft, or “Flying Car”, released specifications and computer graphics of the new Transition. The company unveiled a scale model of the next generation design, currently under construction at its factory in Woburn, Mx*&$achusetts.

The company has been collecting data acquired during driving tests and flight testing of the Proof of Concept Transition, successfully completed in 2009.The improvements to the design will be based on these data, with extensive computer-aided optimization.

The recent allowance of 50 kg by the FAA, for the Transition, keeps it within the Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) category. The design also allows the flexibility to incorporate modern automotive-style safety features currently unavailable in other light aircraft.

Terrafugias Transition is the only LSA to simulate crash testing using advanced computational fluid dynamics, airbag deployment, and digital crash test dummies.Terrafugia expects that when combined with a full-vehicle ballistic parachute system, and the ability to drive in bad weather, the Transition will be one of the safest LSAs in the world. Deliveries of the Transition are scheduled to begin in late 2011.

LEAD-FREE AVGAS

In 2006, Friends of the Earth, an environmental group, petitioned the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to minimize, or eliminate lead in Avgas through legislation.

Earlier this year the EPA recommended the public find ways to eliminate the offending tetraethyl lead (TEL) found in the fuel. What is unclear was what they meant by “the public,” pilots, on-pilots or environmentalists?

That action prompted concerned GA pilots and industry representatives to form an alliance of general aviation and petroleum industry organizations to develop a process by which an unleaded avgas solution could be identified.

The alliance reported at Air Venture that if necessary it would identify and transition to an unleaded fuel in a methodical process. It announced a two-pronged strategy: the short term strategy is to reduce emissions by developing a “drop-in” alternative to 100LL to be called 100ULL, (ultra low-lead), one which may satisfy the needs of piston-engine aircraft without pricey modifications. The long term approach is a detailed five-step program me which we will report on in a future issue.

Meanwhile, the EPA is examining whether 100LL poses a health risk and, if it does, whether that risk is great enough to mandate eliminating low-leaded gasoline.

Regardless of the sabre rattling, most concerned parties do not think 100LL will disappear any time soon, and the EPA confirmed that it had not set a deadline for the removal of lead from Avgas.

COBALTS CO50

Cobalt Aircraft industries, a French start-up, unveiled its new five-place all-composite, pusher design at Air Venture .The CO50 has sleek fighter-plane looks and features, such as under fuselage engine intake(ala P-51) ,canard, and split-vertical stabilizers which liken it to an FA-18 or su-27.

It features a wide, electrically-actuated panoramic canopy and a canard for stall resistance and high-speed performance. The rear-mounted engine will house a TCM 350 hp twin turbocharged, continental TSIOF-550-D2B in a pusher configuration, with FADEC and its attendant single-lever power control.

The company claims it will push the CO50 to 245 knots at a 75% cruise power setting at 8000 feet, and cruise at 220 knots. Cobalt also claims the aircraft will have a 600-nm range with a full load of px*&$engers.

Cobalt says the CO50 is for the business pilot, and aims to offer certified aircraft that can compete with the airlines on short and medium business trips. The prototype is nearing completion and cobalt will soon begin its joint EASA/FAA certification program me which is expected to last two years.

ENSTROM FOR VIRGINIA

Durban-Based JNC helicopter had two very good reasons to celebrate recently when it held a gala dinner at its Virginia Airport headquarters for about a hundred specially-invited guests to mark the tenth anniversary of its formation and the delivery of the first Enstrom F28C-2 in its fleet.

The helicopter is also the first of its type to be based at a flying school in KwaZulu-Natal, and it has been leased from Aerosales Africa, part of Safomar Holdings, which holds the distributorship for both Enstrom and MD helicopters. The JNC Helicopters team is lead by Carol Scobey with chief flying instructor Grant Surtees.

The Enstrom has been placed with JNC Helicopter which can cater for different market categories. It is powered by a turbocharged 205 hp Lycoming HIO-360-E1AD engine.

Aero sales Africa’s strategy is to place as many Enstrom helicopters with flying schools as possible, the idea being that if a pilot flies the Enstrom he or she will buy an Enstrom.The company adopted this strategy to aggressively market the Enstrom and MD range of helicopter in the African market.

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The first airplane to visit the Holy Land was a Bleriot XI, flown by the French aviator Jules Vedrines, who participated in a competition to fly from Paris to Cairo. He landed near Jaffa, on the Mediterranean coast, on December 27th, 1913 - at a time when Palestine was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.

Vedrines took off from Nancy in eastern France on November 20, 1913, and headed his Bleriot XI for central Europe, where his main stops were Prague, Vienna and Belgrade. His last stop in Europe was the Ottoman Empire capital Constantinople (today Istanbul in Turkey), after which he flew over Ottoman territory around the eastern Mediterranean, finally reaching Egypt via Beirut and Jaffa.

A few days later, on December 31st, 1913, a second French airplane reached Palestine - a Nieuport flown by Mark Bornier and Joseph Bernie, which landed near Jerusalem.

As Turkish pilots wanted also to prove their ability to perform long-distance flights, the "Cairo Expedition" was announced at the beginning of 1914. The aim was to complete a travel of about 2,370-km from Istanbul in Turkey to Alexandria in Egypt, through Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. Two airplanes - a Bleriot XI and a Deperdussin with Turkish pilots - took off on February 8th 1914 for the attempt. The Bleriot XI crashed near the Lake of Galilee and its two pilots were killed. The Deperdussin managed to reach Palestine and landed near Jaffa on March 9th, but when taking off to continue the journey, it crashed into the Mediterranean; one pilot drowned in the accident, while the other survived. Another Bleriot, named "Edremit" and flown by Salim and Kemal Bey, finally completed the "Cairo Expedition" successfully in mid-May 1914.

Aviation played a limited role in the Middle East during World War I. British military forces trying to conquer Palestine had to confront German airplanes, which came to the help of the Turkish army. By the end of the war, the British captured the entire land of Palestine. In 1923, the League of Nations gave the U.K. a mandate for the administration of Palestine, which continued until May 1948.

The minority Jewish population in Palestine started to show interest in aviation in the mid 1930s. Initially, a few aero clubs were founded for glider training - the Carmel Club, the Flying Camel Club and the Aero Club of Palestine. The next step was obviously to train pilots on single-engine light planes. This activity commenced at the Palestine Flying Service, which operated three Taylorcraft light planes. The first 11 graduates received their private pilot licenses in April 1939. A second flying school was run at the same time by the Aviron ("Airplane") company, operating a Tiger Moth biplane and three Polish-made RWD-8 biplanes. First graduates of the Aviron flying school received their licenses in July 1939. Aviron grew bigger with the years, merged with Palestine Flying Service and acquired more aircraft. By January 1942, already 95 private pilot's licenses were obtained in Palestine. Aviron also assisted the Jewish underground military organization ("Haganah") in defense operations.

The first local airline - Palestine Airways - started operating inland flights in July 1937 with two Shorts S.16 Scion twin-engine aircraft. Later it acquired a Shorts S.22 Scion Senior and a DH-89A Dragon Rapide, and extended its services to Egypt, Lebanon and Cyprus. Palestine Airways continued operating until August 1940, when its aircraft were taken over for British military service in WWII.

Between July 1937 and the end of the British mandate in May 1948, 22 commercial and private aircraft were registered in Palestine. Following the UN resolution in November 1947 to divide Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states, effective upon the termination of the British Mandate in May 1948, there was an outbreak of severe hostilities. The need for air power became critical to the Jews' survival, and from this dire necessity was borne the Sherut Avir ("Air Service") - an illegal, clandestine Jewish air force. Only 10 light planes were available then in Jewish hand. Additional aircraft were acquired from every possible source. When the state of Israel was founded in May 14th 1948, Sherut Avir had already 25 aircraft. It became the Israeli Air Force, which played a vital role in the War of Independence. In less than a year the Israeli Air Force introduced into service 178 aircraft of 30 different types - an outstanding achievement from the operational and maintenance aspects. Those included heavy bombers, fighters, large and small transports, trainers and various other types.

Aviation progress in Israel was very rapid over the years, in almost every aspect. Notable aeronautical milestones in the first years are:

• Establishing an Israeli Society of Aeronautics in February 1951 (which merged in 1968 with the Israel Astronautical Society and became the Israeli Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics).
• Establishing the national airline EL AL in November 1948.
• The maintenance facility Bedek Aviation opened its gates in 1953, forming the basis for an aircraft industry - later to become Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI).
• A department of aeronautical engineering was inaugurated in the Technion in 1954, later to become the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.

55 years after its foundation, Israel has one of the biggest and most modern air forces in the world, successful international and regional airlines, hundreds of registered general aviation and sport aircraft, renowned research and educational academic institutes, and above all - a most advanced aerospace industry. Israeli defense companies have been developing and manufacturing for years combat aircraft, business jets, all kinds of missiles, UAVs, space launchers and satellites. Israel has become a world leader in many aerospace fields.

Today in Aviation History – January 26

In 1911… The first practical seaplane is flown. Built and flown by American Glenn Curtiss, it lands and takes off in the waters off San Diego, California.

In 1939… : The Boeing Model 314 Clipper is given permission by the Civil Aeronautics Authority to be used for commercial service by Pan American Airways.

In 1945… The McDonnell XFD-1 prototype of the FH-1 Phantom naval jet fighter makes its first flight.

In 1951… First flight of Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket supersonic research aircraft is made. It is launched from underneath its B-29 mother-ship and exceeds Mach 1 (the speed of sound) in a dive.

In 1953… EAA holds first meeting at Curtiss-Wright Field in Milwaukee. The first EAA Fly-In was held in September of 1953, in conjunction with the Milwaukee Air Pageant, which Poberezny had helped organize in 1950. Fewer than 50 airplanes were registered at the inaugural event — a far cry from the 12,000 airplanes the week-long event attracts today at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh. The Convention became too big for its Milwaukee home and moved to Rockford Municipal Airport in Rockford, Illinois in 1959. Continued growth prompted EAA to move to its current location in 1970. Now known as EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the convention is the largest and most significant aviation event in the U.S.

In 1984… The U.S. Army accepts the first production model of the Hughes/McDonnell Douglas AH-64A.

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Fundamental Aeronautics Program Technical Conference

The NASA Fundamental Aeronautics 2011 Technical Conference will convene the aeronautics community—NASA along with our partners from industry, academia, other federal agencies, and the international community—to look at the current work and future plans of the four projects within the Fundamental Aeronautics Program. Planned events include an opening day plenary session, keynote addresses, a panel discussion, parallel technical sessions detailing the work of the projects during the past year, and a luncheon.

Attendees will be able to interact with leading researchers in NASA aeronautics, and network with peers in aeronautics-related disciplines from across the nation. Last year's event at the Weston Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta drew almost 600 aeronautics professionals and students and featured approximately 120 presentations in four parallel tracks over three days.

Please save the date to join us for the NASA Fundamental Aeronautics 2011 Technical Conference at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, located on the Public Square in downtown Cleveland.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is an agency of the United States, responsible for the nation's public space programme. NASA was established on 29 July 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act.
In addition to the space programme, it is also responsible for long-term civilian and military aerospace research. Since February 2006 NASA's self-described mission statement is to "pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research."
NASA's motto is: "For the benefit of all". The motto of NASA's Office of Education is: Shaping the Future: Launching New Endeavors to Inspire the Next Generation of Explorers.
After the Soviet space programme's launch of the world's first human-made satellite (Sputnik 1) on October 4, 1957, the attention of the United States turned toward its own fledgling space efforts. The U.S. Congress, alarmed by the perceived threat to U.S. security and technological leadership (known as the "Sputnik crisis"), urged immediate and swift action; President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his advisors counseled more deliberate measures. Several months of debate produced an agreement that a new federal agency was needed to conduct all non-military activity in space. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was also created at this time and many of DARPA's early space programs were soon transferred to NASA.
Explorer 1, officially Satellite 1958 Alpha, was the first Earth artificial satellite of the United States, having been launched on 31 January 1958. President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. When it began operations on 1 October 1958, NASA consisted mainly of the four laboratories and some 80 employees of the government's 46-year-old research agency, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). A significant contributor to NASA's entry into the Space race was the technology from the German rocket program, led by Wernher von Braun, who became a naturalized citizen of the United States after World War II. He is today regarded as the father of the United States space programme. Elements of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (of which von Braun's team was a part) and the Naval Research Laboratory were incorporated into NASA.
NASA's earliest programmes involved research into human spaceflight and were conducted under the pressure of the competition between the U.S. and the USSR (the Space Race) that existed during the Cold War. Project Mercury, initiated in 1958, started NASA down the path of human space exploration with missions designed to discover simply if man could survive in space. Representatives from the U.S. Army (M.L. Raines, LTC, USA), Navy (P.L. Havenstein, CDR, USN) and Air Force (K.G. Lindell, COL, USAF) were selected/requested to provide assistance to the NASA Space Task Group through coordination with the existing U.S. defense research and defense contracting infrastructure, and technical assistance resulting from experimental aircraft (and the associated military test pilot pool) development in the 1950s. On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard—one of the seven Project Mercury astronauts selected as pilot for this mission—became the first American in space when he piloted Freedom 7 on a 15-minute suborbital flight. John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962 during the 5 and a quarter-hour flight of Friendship 7.
After the Mercury project, Project Gemini was launched to conduct experiments and work out issues relating to a moon mission. The first Gemini flight with astronauts on board, Gemini 3, was flown by Gus Grissom and John Young on March 23, 1965. Nine other missions followed, showing that long-duration human space flight was possible, proving that rendezvous and docking with another vehicle in space was possible, and gathering medical data on the effects of weightlessness on human beings.
During this time NASA also began to explore the solar system with unmanned probes. As with the manned program, the Soviets had the first successes, such as the first photographs of the lunar far side, but NASA's Mariner 2 was the first space probe to visit another planet, Venus, in 1962.

Apollo programme

The Apollo programme was designed to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. Apollo 1 ended tragically when all the astronauts inside died due to fire in the command module during an experimental simulation. Because of this incident, there were a few unmanned tests before men boarded the spacecraft. Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 tested various components while orbiting the Moon, and returned photographs. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11, landed the first men on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Apollo 13 did not land on the Moon due to a malfunction, but did return photographs. The six missions that landed on the Moon returned a wealth of scientific data and almost 400 kilograms of lunar samples. Experiments included soil mechanics, meteoroids, seismic, heat flow, lunar ranging, magnetic fields, and solar wind experiments.^[1]

Skylab

Skylab was the first space station the United States launched into orbit. The 75 tonne station was in Earth orbit from 1973 to 1979, and was visited by crews three times, in 1973 and 1974. Skylab was originally intended to study gravitational anomalies in other solar systems, but the assignment was curtailed due to lack of funding and interest. It included a laboratory for studying the effects of microgravity, and a solar observatory. A Space Shuttle was planned to dock with and elevate Skylab to a higher safe altitude, but Skylab reentered the atmosphere and was destroyed in 1979, before the first shuttle could be launched, landing over parts of Western Australia and the Indian Ocean, with some fragments being recovered.

Apollo-Soyuz

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (or ASTP) was the first joint flight of the U.S. and Soviet space programs. The mission took place in July 1975. For the United States of America, it was the last Apollo flight, as well as the last manned space launch until the flight of the first Space Shuttle in April 1981.

Shuttle era

The Space Shuttle became the major focus of NASA in the late 1970s and the 1980s. Planned to be a frequently launchable and mostly reusable vehicle, four space shuttles were built by 1985. The first to launch, Columbia, did so on April 12, 1981.^[2]
Shuttle flights were much more expensive than initially projected, and the public again lost interest as missions appeared to become mundane until the 1986 Challenger disaster again highlighted the risks of space flight. Work began on Space Station Freedom as a focus for the manned space programme, but within NASA there was argument that these projects came at the expense of more inspiring unmanned missions such as the Voyager probes.
Nonetheless, the shuttle launched milestone projects like the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The HST is a joint project between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), and its success has paved the way for greater collaboration between the agencies. The HST was created with a relatively small budget of $2 billion but has continued operation since 1990, delighting both scientists and the public. Some of its images, such as the groundbreaking Hubble Deep Field, have become famous.
In 1995 Russian-American interaction resumed with the Shuttle-Mir missions. Once more an American vehicle docked with a Russian craft, this time a full-fledged space station. This cooperation continues to today, with Russia and America the two biggest partners in the largest space station ever built, the International Space Station (ISS). The strength of their cooperation on this project was even more evident when NASA began relying on Russian launch vehicles to service the ISS during the two year grounding of the shuttle fleet following the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, which killed the crew of six Americans and one Israeli, caused a 29-month hiatus in space shuttle flights and triggered a serious re-examination of NASA's priorities.

It is the current space policy of the United States that NASA, "execute a sustained and affordable human and robotic programme of space exploration and develop, acquire, and use civil space systems to advance fundamental scientific knowledge of our Earth system, solar system, and universe."

Research Activities and Facilities

.......................rr........................................	Research in this lab is dedicated to basic studies of the fundamental properties of turbulent and reacting flow. Areas of interest include measurements of the structure of turbulent flames, direct numerical simulation of free shear flows, and use of topological methods for interpretation of complex three-dimensional vector fields. Recent projects include studies of fast-burning fuels for hybrid propulsion and decomposition of nitrous oxide for space propulsion.
	The principal focus of the ACL is the development and application of numerical techniques in the design of aerospace products. The basis of these numerical techniques lies in the application of multigrid methods pioneered by Professor Jameson in the past decades. These methods are being used to solve mathematical models of fluid flow ranging from the linearized potential flow equations to the fully non-linear unsteady Navier-Stokes equations. The computational efficiency of these techniques has made them the de facto standard in the aerospace industry. These codes have been used to analyze and design vehicles ranging from sailboats to commercial airliners.
	The Aerospace Design Laboratory (ADL) was established in order to foster the use of high-fidelity analysis and design tools in a variety of aerospace design problems including aircraft, turbomachinery, launch vehicles, helicopters, and spacecraft. The lab has three main areas of interest: development of discipline-specific advanced algorithms for the simulation of complex physical phenomena, advanced methods for design of complex systems, and practical applications of these advanced design tools. The goal at the ADL is to develop and test new algorithms and methodologies in abstractions of design problems that contain all the ingredients of industrial, real-life design problems, not just academic examples. This work is (or has been) funded by NASA, DARPA, DoE, AFRL, AFOSR, Boeing, Raytheon Aircraft, and the US Navy, among others.
	The ARL continually creates experimental systems for developing advanced robot systems and new control techniques with applications to free-flying space robots, to undersea and air systems, to mobile ground robots, and to industrial automation. The focus is on the human-robot team, with the human at the strategy and task-command level and the robot system doing the real-time planning and precise task execution. The modus operandi is to pursue entirely new control system concepts, one after another, to full experimental proof of concept. Outdoor and indoor precision GPS (2 cm) systems are an integral part of each of the above vehicle systems (except undersea). Joint projects are underway with the Computer Science Robotics Laboratory in the full vertical integration of task conceptualization, planning, and quick, precise execution. Experimental extension of these concepts to deep-underwater robotic vehicle development is being advanced with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
	The Aircraft Aerodynamics and Design Group at Stanford University is involved with research in applied aerodynamics and aircraft design. Work ranges from the development of computational and experimental methods for aerodynamic analysis to studies of unconventional aircraft concepts and new architectures for multidisciplinary design optimization. The Flight Research Lab is devoted to studies of unusual aircraft configurations and novel flight control concepts; there, flight experiments involving small remotely-piloted aircraft instrumented with computers and sensors are used to augment results from analytical design studies.
	The GPS Laboratory is studying and building systems for vehicle navigation and attitude determination. Since the GPS satellite navigation system became operational in 1993, there is increasing interest in an array of applications for this technology. Specific Stanford accomplishments to date include: the demonstration of attitude determination with GPS in aircraft and spacecraft; the demonstration of centimeter-level accuracy in aircraft navigation during automatic landings; the demonstration of meter-level accuracy over continental areas using wide area differential techniques; the demonstration of the use of GPS for precision farming and open pit mining; and the demonstration of precision formation flight. In addition, the laboratory has been instrumental in the design of the new 3-frequency signals for future GPS satellites, and expects to be a leader in the development of this capability.
	The Gravity Probe B is a NASA satellite program being developed at Stanford. It is the largest program delegated to a University by NASA. GP-B supplies two entirely new, very precise, tests of Einstein's general theory of relativity, our fundamental, but very incompletely tested, theory of the large-scale structure of the Universe. Based on observations of gyroscopes in a "drag-free" satellite flying in Earth orbit, the mission will provide (a) by far the most precise test of general relativity ever attempted, and (b) the first measurement ever on one of Einstein's most fundamental predictions, the phenomenon of frame-dragging. These measurements have deep implications for unifying gravity with the other forces of nature, and for interpreting astrophysical phenomena.
	The Guidance and Control Laboratories include a wide spectrum of specialized facilities for making and testing novel instruments and control systems of extremely high precision. Applications include aerospace vehicle guidance and control, sensing instrument development and applications, robotics for manufacturing and operations in space, precision engineering and fabrication, and ultraprecision machine tool design and development.
	The Hybrid Systems Laboratory is designing algorithms for the analysis and control of complex aerodynamic systems. Research ranges from systems design and control for the next generation of Air Traffic Systems, through the development of algorithms for automatic flight-mode switching in flight-management systems, to the design and control of a team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
	Research in multidisciplinary aerospace modeling and simulation is carried out by Prof. Farhat's research group (FRG). It designs, analyzes, develops, verifies, and validates whenever possible mathematical models and computational methods for the high-performance simulation of multidisciplinary aerospace engineering problems, among others. It specializes in distributed computing and massively parallel processing. Recent efforts focused on and continue to address structural dynamics, contact problems, CFD on moving grids, nonlinear aeroelasticity of fighter aircraft, fluid-structure interaction, acoustics, inverse problems, and shape optimization. Current emphasis is on aerothermodynamics, parameterized aeroelastic reduced-order modeling, near real-time computing, multiscale approximation methods, explosions and implosions, the dynamics, aerodynamics, and aeroelasticity of Formula 1 cars, and various large-scale applications in aerospace and marine engineering.
	The Networked Systems and Control Lab is developing algorithms and techniques for modeling, analysis, and robust design of complex interconnected and distributed systems. This research is at the intersection of dynamics, control, and computation. Applications include systems of multiple, semi-autonomous vehicles and data networks.
	The Space and Systems Development Laboratory (SSDL) provides graduate students with a world-class education and research in the field of space system design, technology, and operation. SSDL's Satellite Quick Research Testbed (SQUIRT) trains students in all aspects of the spacecraft design life cycle through hands-on work on real, student-engineered satellites - intended to be excellent examples of simple, fast, cheap, flexible, and intelligent micro-satellite design, launched into orbit and operated from Stanford. SQUIRT also prepares students for participation in SSDL's advanced space research projects. Scientific and engineering partners in these projects include a variety of academic research centers, government laboratories, and industrial corporations. SSDL's flagship satellites are SAPPHIRE and OPAL.
	The Space Environment and Satellite Systems (SESS) laboratory encompasses both ground-based and space-based detection of the space environment and modeling to understanding how the space environment affects spacecraft. In particular, SESS is developing the Meteoroid and Energetic Detector for Understanding Space Situational Awareness (MEDUSSA) spacecraft aimed at characterizing the electrical effects that result when a meteoroid or energetic particle impacts a satellite. This research also includes ground-based hypervelocity impact tests to characterize the RF emission as a function of frequency, point of impact, and material strength. SESS is also focusing on understanding atmospheric effects on the ionosphere and how these ionospheric irregularities can disrupt or halt ground-to-space communication. Finally, we use ground-based radars from around the world, including Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, EISCAT in Sweden, and ALTAIR on the Kwajalein Atoll to collect plasma data formed when a meteoroid enters Earth's atmosphere. We use these data with sophisticated models to understand the natural debris population and their potential damage mechanism to satellites.
	Research encompasses composite structural design, including vibration, stability, impact damage, and environmental effects; biological applications of composites; grid structures; composites in sports equipment; composite manufacturing; fiber optic and piezoelectric sensors; structural health monitoring; and smart structures. The laboratory is providing the data, design methods, and tools to make the most effective use of these materials.
	The research areas of current focus include turbulence simulations, compressible shear flows, transition in boundary layers, aeroacoustics, jet noise, turbine blade heat transfer, aircraft vortex wakes and condensation trails, and numerical methods. Computational techniques are developed and used to study the fluid dynamics of a variety of problems.

ICAA 2011 : "International Conference on Aeronautics and Astronautics

.............................The International Conference on Aeronautics and Astronautics aims to bring together academic scientists, leading engineers, industry researchers and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

PAPER SUBMISSION

All full paper submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and/or research content/depth, correctness, relevance to conference, contributions, and readability. The full paper submissions will be chosen based on technical merit, interest, applicability, and how well they fit a coherent and balanced technical program. The accepted full papers will be published in the  refereed conference proceedings. Prospective authors are kindly invited to submit full text papers including results, tables, figures and references. Full text papers (.doc, .rft, .ps, .pdf) will be accepted only by electronic submission.

WORKSHOPS

Researchers are cordially invited to submit a paper and/or a proposal to organize a workshop and actively participate in this conference. Proposals are invited for workshops to be affiliated with the conference scope and topics. The conference workshops provide a challenging forum and vibrant opportunity for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research positions, original research results and practical development experiences on specific new challenges and emerging issues. The workshop topics should be focused so that the Participants can benefit from interaction with each other and the cohesiveness of the topics.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

The International Refereed Conference Proceedings reviewed and indexed by Google Scholar, Scopus, Compendex, Thomson Reuters, WorldCat, EBSCO, GALE,  Embase, Reaxys, Engineering Village / Engineering Index (EI), DOAJ, Library of Congress, British Library, Electronic Journals Library will be internationally distributed both in Electronic CD-ROM Format  and  Proceedings Book. The Refereed Conference Proceedings Book and CD-ROM will be included in each Conference Registrant's Packet.
 

Early Conference Registration Fees		Late Conference Registration Fees
Author Delegates	450 EURO	Author Delegates	500 EURO
Student Delegates	350 EURO	Student Delegates	400 EURO
Listener Delegates	250 EURO	Listener Delegates	300 EURO

SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE

ICAA 2011 has teamed up with the International Journal of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering for publishing a Special Journal Issue on Advances in Aeronautics and Astronautics. All submitted papers will have opportunities for consideration for this Special Journal Issue. The selection will be carried out during the review process as well as at the conference presentation stage. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by any other journal or publication. The final decision will be made based on peer review reports by the guest editors and the Editor-in-Chief jointly.

IIAEIT

• IIAEIT is a pioneer frontline training institute in the field of aeronautical and other engineering disciplines. With an excellent faculty, backed by well equipped laboratories, the institute is considered as the one of the best in this part of the country. Being in the process of procuring its own aircraft, it proudly introduces dual degree programs and informs the graphical analysis of the performance of the students to the parents / guardians with daily updating through internet.
  
  
• The test pattern of the institute examinations is unique which brings out the best out of the students. To keep up with the advances in e-learning the institute is bringing out iiaeitonline.net for distant learning, simultaneously it is also introducing the training in foreign languages subject to adequate response.
  
  
• For needy people educational loans are arranged through nationalized banks. Some of our students have topped in the subjects and some received the Council Prizes.
  
  
• Activities at the institute are student oriented while the discipline coupled with ethics, character, morality, spirituality etc occupy place of honor. Above all we care for the students.
  
  
• Study material will shortly be made available on intranet & Internet to all correspondence students. Regular students can register with the institute for these facilities.
  
• Assistance in availing educational loan through nationalized banks
  
  
• Fully functional Training & Placement cell for placement and job assistance.
  
  
• Subject wise practical exposure to all students